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Jackson6612 Posted 15 years ago
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Final club at harvard
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I was reading a Wikipedia article on "Final Club" and need your help with some parts. I'm going to copy-paste the problem parts together along with my question(s) below them. Please help me. Thanks.
Link to the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_club
A final club (often misstated as "finals club") is an undergraduate social club at Harvard College.
The historical basis for the name final club is that Harvard used to have a variety of clubs for freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, with students of different years being in different clubs, and the "final clubs" were so named because they were the last social club a person could join before graduation.
There are currently eight all-male clubs at Harvard:
* A.D. (1 Plympton St.)
* Owl (30 Holyoke St.);
* Delphic (known as "the Gas") (9 Linden St);
* Fly (2 Holyoke Pl.)
* Fox (44 John F. Kennedy St.);
* Phoenix-SK (72 Mt Auburn St);
* Porcellian - sometimes called the 'Porc' or the 'P.C.' (1324 Mass Ave);
* Spee (76 Mt Auburn St).
It seems the Final Club is a single club from the first sentence. But in the second part it reads as if there are or were more than one Final Club - see the use "they". Then, as you can see, there is a list of all-male clubs. What does it all mean? Please guide me. Thanks.
I was reading a Wikipedia article on "Final Club" and need your help with some parts. I'm going to copy-paste the problem parts together along with my question(s) below them. Please help me. Thanks.
Link to the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_club
A final club (often misstated as "finals club") is an undergraduate social club at Harvard College.
The historical basis for the name final club is that Harvard used to have a variety of clubs for freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, with students of different years being in different clubs, and the "final clubs" were so named because they were the last social club a person could join before graduation.
There are currently eight all-male clubs at Harvard:
* A.D. (1 Plympton St.)
* Owl (30 Holyoke St.);
* Delphic (known as "the Gas") (9 Linden St);
* Fly (2 Holyoke Pl.)
* Fox (44 John F. Kennedy St.);
* Phoenix-SK (72 Mt Auburn St);
* Porcellian - sometimes called the 'Porc' or the 'P.C.' (1324 Mass Ave);
* Spee (76 Mt Auburn St).
It seems the Final Club is a single club from the first sentence. But in the second part it reads as if there are or were more than one Final Club - see the use "they". Then, as you can see, there is a list of all-male clubs. What does it all mean? Please guide me. Thanks.
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I interpret it as a "final club" is a type of undergraduate club which accepts as its members only students who are nearing graduation. "
- I interpret it as a "final club" is a type of undergraduate club which accepts as its members only students who are nearing graduation.
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I interpret it as a "final club" is a type of undergraduate club which accepts as its members only students who are nearing graduation. There are apperently many instances of these "final clubs."
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